“Etiquette Enforcement,” Ellis Henican Blog, “The Huffington Post,” June 24, 2009 The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has officially decided we’re not polite enough. They should know, right? These are the people who have done so much to coarsen the local language with expressions like “The train will be moving shortly” (yeah, right!) and “I have no…

“Deception No Present on Father’s Day,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, June 21, 2009 It’s the Father’s Day mystery that may never be solved. No, not what happened to Steven Damman, the toddler whose disappearance from East Meadow in 1955 spurred a massive national child hunt. With luck, persistence and a few long memories, the…

“140-Character World Changers,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 19, 2009, page 4 Why should Iranian election protesters have all the Twitter fun? Can’t other world events be hijacked, one 140-character outburst at a time? Sure, they can. And soon they will be. Every day, it gets a little bit harder to tell the social-networking…

“Albany Judgement Day,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, June 14, 2009 The court came to order. After days of Albany pandemonium, the matter had finally arrived where it was headed all along, in the lap of a state court. The issue? Effective control of the New York State Senate. The judge? The honorable Thomas McNamara,…

“America’s Funniest Statehouse,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, June 12, 2009 “These Albany people,” I was marveling Thursday, “they come straight from Central Casting.” Randy Credico, who’s been working for years in the capital on drug-law reform, begged to differ. “A couple of them,” he said, “come straight from Central Booking.” But this being Albany,…

“Prez Puts Middle Name Front and Center,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, June 7, 2009 Finally, the middle name was a plus. Barack Hussein Obama spent much of the week in a part of the world where Hussein is like Smith or Johnson. It slides off the tongue, hardly noticed at all. All last year,…

“ETHICS TAKE A VACATION,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, 6-5-09 Ethics delayed in Albany! Honesty in government forced to wait! Holy kickback, who would have expected something like this? Only someone who’d never driven within 100 miles of New York’s cozy state capital, where legislators and lobbyists never, ever forget who’s who. (Hint: The lobbyists pick…

“Who Wants to Drive Everywhere?” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, 5-31-09 Is it still the suburbs if you don’t need a car? That epistemological question lies at the very core of the debate over Long Island’s two most fascinating development proposals – the Lighthouse project around Nassau Coliseum and western Suffolk’s Heartland Town Square. What…

“Supreme Predicament for the G.O.P.,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, May 29, 2009 Oh, this could be great for Obama and the Democrats. If Republicans will just keep pulverizing Sonia Sotomayor, they might well achieve a rare double fiasco for the Once-Grand Party – pursuing a doomed campaign against a highly qualified Supreme Court nominee…

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Ellis Henican

ELLIS HENICAN is a New York Times bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and a popular TV news pundit. He is also the voice of Stormy on the hit Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021. Ellis is a born storyteller. His How to Catch a Russian Spy, written with American double-agent Naveed Jamali (Scribner), was called “the funniest book I read” by Washington Post critic Carlos Lozada and is being made into a feature film by director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider Man) for Twentieth Century Fox.

Ellis wrote the ground-breaking Vigilance with longtime New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly (Hachette Books) and Worth Dying For with Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver (Howard Books), a follow-up to their special-ops bestseller Damn Few (Hyperion). Making It in America, with furniture titan John Bassett III (Center Street), tells how U.S. companies in the Trump era can survive foreign competition and keep American jobs at home. ,Read More